'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?
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#4Some relevant context here contesting this view: https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1216770668475252738
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#5Some relevant context here contesting this view: https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1216770668475252738
Wanted to post exactly this. WSJ doing some terrific propaganda here.
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#6The circular firing squad modality is due to the infantilism academia coddled.
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#7The line between genius and madness is famously thin and there is no way to distinguish a room full of cranks from a room full of enlightened scholars without listening carefully and weighing up what gets said. And of course one side straight up lying is a fairly useful indicator.
So I suppose as long as these people are trying to tell the truth as they see it good luck to them. But articles like this are fundamentally a cross between advertising and propaganda so aren't much use to the general public. There is a dire need for some political balance in academia as it is a sheltered institution that by and large doesn't have to deal with the cost of things in the same way as broader society does; so it is good to see someone pushing the right wing as long as they are playing by the rules of honesty and citation which is what academics is about.
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#8Where has this been since 2015?
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#9Some relevant context here contesting this view: https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1216770668475252738
Since twitter is horrible on mobile, here's a summary:
# Nasorg sounds like NAS and could be mistaken for it.
# Nasorg is conservative and have published material with conservative slant.
# 7 out of 21 speakers are climate denialists.
# Therefore it is righteous to deplatform them.
Re: 'Cancel Culture' Comes to Science?
#10Some relevant context here contesting this view: https://twitter.com/lteytelman/status/1216770668475252738
Key quotes:
>The @NASorg [National Association of Scholars] sounds like the National Academy of Science, but it's not.
>The conference they are organizing has 21 speakers. Of them, 7 are hard core climate change deniers and 0 are climate experts.
Sounds like a pretty shady group to me.